The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-20 00:00:00

nEAR DOCTOR, what do you navies(' P I advise Alfred Blellon's Concerts, afterwards to 341 ' V ANS', Covent-garden. hear some charming singing, order one of their cauital chow and magnificent potatoes, and that la the best advice I can give you. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 38. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded n ahan's LL Whisky." THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. At the Annual Meetinr.r„ on - the sth inst., the following* were some of the leading results disclosed in the Report to the shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of £341,663 Ileint an advance of over 1 862; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre- VI ous year. The Revenu. from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government in 1862 was . .£75 993 Ditto ditto, 1853 88,966 Showing an Increase in one year of Among' the incidents which have tended to the advance ment of the Royal within the last few months may be reckoned its a•tion with respect to the losses sustained by the explo sion of the Lott y Sleigh, which although on y con •istent with the general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti fnately proved to be no more than what had been done in for mer times by the o'dest and most proverbial y honourable among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public favour by its unhesitating prompt'iess. As the largest tot,l of Revenue and the largest rail of progression have been attained in the present year, so it happens that the largest Profit which it has ever 'alien to the Directors to record has likewise on this occasion to be an nounced. The balance of net profir on theyear has amounted to £83,515 • of which sum £34,100 only has been appropriated to Dividend and Bonus, and the large balan .e of £49,444 been Carried to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. The progress of the Life Branch, as shown by the New Business transacted in the last year, is most promising, and the advances made, year by year, in the amount of New In surances effected, sh .w clearly the estimation in which the Company is held. The following is a statement for the last five years : Net Sum Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 This rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum Assured, and upwards of 80 per cent. on the Premium re ceived in the course of five years, may justly be considered as larger than any which could have been reasonably expected. The first half of the current year 1864, however, far outstrips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as the sum assured for that period of six months only actually exceeds Half-a-Mil ion sterling. The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by toe quinquennial investigation, which is to take place w h en the present year is conclud_d. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. AR Ii Y CoNTR ACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon, on the 29th of September, from per sons w h o may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities as may be required, for the use of her trajesty's Land Forces stationed hi the following places, from Ist November, 1 6-1, to 31st October, 1865 : LONDON DISTRICT. 1 . FORAGE.Hyde Park, Kensington, Regent's Park, and Horse Guards. 2. Hounslow, and Kneller Hall. 3. Hampton lout 4. VC in dsor. 5. Brighton. 6. Sandhurst 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 1 . Brompton lir use, Knightsbridge and Hags zinc Barracks, Hyde Park ; and Kensimgton. legent's Park, and St. John's Wood Barracks. New Barracks, Chelsea. 5 • Th ffellT ow ing toer.n, and St. George's Barracks. e Ifounqow, and Kneller Hall. • z Hampton. Court. 8. Windsor. 9. Brighton with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham. 10. Guernse 1. Jersey. y. 14. Alderney. _ .Se p ar ate Tenders must be made for Forage and Paillasse ztraw for each of tie above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as separately grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender, and Conditions of Contract. may be ob ,a ned on application at this Office, by letter addressed to the '3,enior Comrniss.riat Officer, or in person, between the hours 01 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed 'forms must be properly filled up and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unle .8 delivered at the under-mentioned Office, under closed e: velnpe (marked on the outside, "Tender for Commissariat Supp:ies"), before Is O'clock noon on the 29th September. Deputy Commissary-General's Office. 5 , New-street, spring -gardens, London, S.W., sth September, 18, 4. SOH O ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring , _ re ehold or Leaseh o ld P roperty, or having Business and liolises to be dispose I of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES 1-) Soho, ItitAY Auctioneer and Valuer, 2(;, Gerrard-street, Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail waY Compensations, sze. Rems Collected. VINTAGE WINE COMPANY, Importers of Spanish and other Wines, 14, ll'oomsbury-sti eA, London, Pour Doors South of New Oxford-street. The Vintage Co ida Sherry, Golden rry, Its. per doz. r- r,lie Vintage Xeres Ditto, Pale Ihe Vintae Port, No. 1 . Vs. ~ The Vintavre Port, No. 1* pThe Vintage Port, No. 5 fine rich old le Vintage Claret ' 13s. ~ The Vintage Beaujolais, recommended .. The Vintage Champagne, quarts pints the :K!nlaf),*e Hock, sparkling, very choice 368. ~ The vlattge Burgundy, sparkling superb 405. ~ The Vintage Amontillado Inia . Sherry 4L ie Vintage , the choicestimported 569. ~ T 1 1,.... Fine "Id Cog nac. Li quors, Spirits, (to. im „,4,,m VI NTAGE ALMANACK, with price list and 41 , ai and clerical t es ti mon i a l s, sent post f ree. S ee 30) 111 ens ot the press. 14, Elooni4ntry-street. ---____________ IP N. W. HODJES, Secretary. Z E MEDAL —INTERNATIONAL F- ....JA EXLIIBITION, 1862. CIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &a, &0., To the Queen and the Piinee of Wales. (Established 1720.) t e r? 9 Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, Lines Manufactur e exeellen of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' E ,distin g u ished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis lEer and Co., on the subject of A X CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, SI says :- 1,4 11 ,,,nave found them fully equal to the recommendation You gave them, and can offsincerey, in my turn, I com- M end them to the clergy or the use the altar." l'i aest quality, with fatted Wicks, patented.. is. 2d. per lb. Ordinary_ quality Od. per lb. vEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. hest quality Is. sd. per lb. Third qualitY .. Is. 3d. per lb. ird quality .. ** •: •: is. id. per lb. im age Paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds In value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO, : 8 , South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory-- Th e Kensington (Established J 730). - lest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar " BED •ROOlll CANDLES. PRICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop grease when carried."—Thin, very hard candles, Sold in arriers. boxes ls. and 3s. eac h, are recommendel as the best c " EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," Sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those Who will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, is. and 28. 6d each ; reducing sockets, taaking them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOIL IsIT SOAPS.. Sherwood Brown Windsor soap, with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, to tender skins in winter. • GLYCERINE. SH ERWOODOLE "Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. eansuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot " Pricz's Patent," from 6d. I ties, ad. and is. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold , sn. the state- I meat that it is "equal to Prices." R throudh any udGrocer. W holesale by Prt eta le a il Patent Cale Company:(Limited), London. i PEET FL—Mr. ESKELL' S PATENT ,— The „I s l, exclusive right to ths Patent was sred to Mr. ;11. tell, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, ec u by her Ma e.sJy's R o y a l Seal (July 17, 1800), and can only be procured at residence, where specimens maybe seen, and ev er y infor mation can be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without Pain or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect ender hums; th e i r resemblance to nature i s perfect and un ectable, and they are guaranteed for mastication and roiculation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. aaultations free. OPINIONS OF TITE PRESS. artircial Eskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing teeth, and so constructing them that they last their B:" rt ur ci Polle a lifetime. . . The process has been . patented, 1860 Pr . oraises to be moat valuable."—Court Journal, August toil& gum novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth ~,_e e gum by a patenled prince which secures the most ct aid, combined wiTh thereatest ease and agreeable 213ea'ance."—Mornin Advertiser, August 9, 1860. be eaYed teeth stoppe,l, Sze. Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor,strect, Bond-street. AIIOROSCOPE and TELESCOPE combined, _ j, wit introduced, both of wonderful power, in Case ,Ti s. ,_ , A tyl` TELESCOPES, define 5 sales, tOs. 6d ; 0 Miles, , 2e,4.; Ditto, and for Astronomy, 40s. 111ICROSCOP in Cabinets 3 Powers, 10s. 6d., magnifies 15,000 times ; Ditto, tna'nifying 3C,00), 215., with Animalctem Cave, Life Box, dte• Lap_,re Compound Achromatic Ditto, power 65,000, 84s. lie most powerful Race Glasses, made with sling cases, at lo s. --lA/AGRI LAN TERNS and DISSOLVING -a_ V lEWS.—Magic Lanterns and 36 Pictures, 7s. ed.; ar, er Size. 10s 6d. Dissolving Apparatus complete, 70s. D.D escripti ve Catalogues for two stamps. Post Orders pay able Upper Baker-street. BERNARD DAVIS, 430, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON. Optician to the Institutions. •--...._.______ S PE CTACLES.—Lenses ground on s new ovver principle, requiring les s th an h a lf th e usual maenifying r eme old p, and with which the s ma ll es t pr i nt may b e read to ex age. (Prom the "Medical Circular," Nov. 16, 1850.) their aid the most defective vision may be improved." Steel r 6 anti Pebbles, 10s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. Glasses, Go . . age. , 6d,, 3s. 6d, Country residents suited by stating. N?. 22,540. MRS. lIOWITT'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE COST OF CAERGWYN. By MARY HOWITT. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., , Q 0 N . , A N D H E I R. kJ "It is areal satisfaction now-a-days to meet with a novel in which incident is used as a vehi le of emotion, not as an expedient to conceal or excu , e a total abscn2e of character. The author of . Son and lid • ' may fairly colgratulate ner ,elf on ha.ing, achieved a legitimate success."—Saturday Review. llurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready, In Crown evo., F OOTPRINTS ON THE ROAD. By CHARLES KENT. Chapman and Hall, 193, Pi.cadilly. On the 26th inst., in 3 vols., post Evo., THE WILMOT FAMILY. A NOVEL. 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NEW BOYS' BOOK, EDITED BY SIR. C. F. LASCELLES WRAXALL, BART. This day published, pri e 65., with Illustrations on toned Tpaper, crown Bvo., pp. 412, extra cloth, gilt lettered, H E BACKWOODSMAN. Edited by Sir C. F. LASCELLES WRAXALL, Bart. London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. PARLIAMENTARY DESPATCH AND AGENCY OFFICE, No. 5, Upper Charles-street, Parliament-street. AN ANALYTICAL INDEX to the DIVISIONS of the present SESSION (1864) is in course of compi!a tion by Mr. GEO. M. MITCHELL, and will be ready for circu lation at the prorogation of Parliament. Th , s work will show members and their constituents how each member voted, whether for or against public and private measures dur,ng the session; total number of times, with majorities for and against, &c. Subscription, One Guinea. Members can have their Divisions for the whole Parlia ment in extenso upon application to the above office. ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1 865 . Tho 35th yearly edition of Fifty-five Thousand, c)ntains Im portant Events predicted. Also "The True Causes of an Eclipse of the Sun," and "Another Nut for the Astronomers to Urack;" Also " Cosmogony," and other Interesting l'apers. London: Geo. Berger, Newcastle-street, Strand; of whom also may be had Vols. I. and li. of "The Hand-bcok of Astrology." JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.-HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—THIS EVENING. Vocalist, Mdlle. Liebhardt ; Pianiste, Mdlle. Mariot De ileauvoisin ; Cornet. Signor Luigint ; Violin, M. Lotto. Full Band of One Hundred Performers. Conductor, M. JIJLLIEN. The Danish National Vocalis's and the Band of the Danish Guards will appear immediately on their arrival Promenade, ls. TEE WIZARD OF THE NORTH.- qTHIS EVENING at 8 o'clock- Sixteenth Appearance f ➢liss Anderson, the Eecond-Sighted Sybil. Secure your stalls and tickets at Mr Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly. Open Lally from Ten till Five. " THE WORLD OF MAGIC." ANTHROPOGLOSSOS.-ST.JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilty.—Great Success !—Extraordinary Excitement. The AN THROPOGLOSSOS, Automaton Vocalist, Wonder of the World. [Registered according to Acts 1843 and 1850, 6 and 7 Vic., c, 6', 13 and 14 Vic., c. 1( 4, and copyright secired an i entered at Stationer's Hall.] OPEN DAILY, from 12 till 10 o'clock. The Exhibitions take place a - the commerceirent of each hour, viz., 12, 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7. 8, and 9 o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. Tickets at Mr. Austin's office, St. James s II .P, 24, Picca di ly, W. MR. GERMAN REED'S New OPERA di CAMERA ENTERTAINM ENT.—TO-NIGIIT, at Eight o'clock, TIIE SLEEPING QUEEN, by M. W. Balfe, Esq., the libre to by Ti. Farnie, Esq., and sustained by Miss D'Este Finlay on, Mr. Whiflin, Mr. Wilkinson. and Miss Poole. To be followed by TOO MANY COOKS, adapted from M. Offenbach by Mr. German Reed, the libretto by C. Furtado, Esq., and in which Mi's D'Este Finlayson, Mr. Whiffin, and r. J. A. Slutw will appear. ROYAL GAL LERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every evening 'except Sat rday), at 8. Saturday morning, at 1. Unreserved seats, is., 25,; stalls, 35.; stall chairs, 55., can 7i'AV be secured at the Gallery without fee. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). CANTERBURY Westminster-road, London. HALL, GRAND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Also, the New and successful Illusion, entitled THE TERCEN PENARY ; or, a NIGHT WITH SHAKSPERE. Operatic Selections, Glees, &c., by the whole of the talented Artistes. Comedy by Mr. W. Randall ; Mrs. W. Randall ; and those marvellous Gymnasts, Mes , rs. TALLIOTT and BURNELL I (from the Principal Cirque, Madrid). " THE ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN !" "Go, knock, and call ; he'll speak like an Anthropopha ginian unto thee: knock, I say."— Shakspere. Merry Wives of Windsor, 4 act, so. 5. THE WONDER OF TITE DAT Will be Illustrated by Mr. W. Hilton. Director. Mr. F. Jonghmans. A dmission—Area, Bd. ; Stalls rind Balcony, Is. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph. by Mons. Trinquart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, Is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, R. R. BIGNELL. During the week, and till further notice, in addition to the Dance Music, Selections fnm Verdi's popular Operas, Ii Trovatore, Traviata, Rigoletto, &T. ; Meyorbeer's Molle du Nord, Huguenots, ; Melodies of the Forest, Valise, Guy Manner! g, Polka, &c. Conductor—L. CURTL Doors open at half-past S.—Admission, One Shilling, Manager—M. GRENET. DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, during thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universAlly accepted by the Palie, as the Bf st Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more esp .ciqlly for Ladies and Children. Combined with the Acoidulated Lemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons, and, above all, in Hot Climates, the regular use of this sim ple and e'egant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and purity) by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond-street, London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. SPORTING"BOOKS, GUIDES. CIRCULARS, ac. eIR. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught • terrace, Hyde-park, has on hand, or gets to order, all Sporting an i General Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c. 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Carisbrook. 30 Giant. 33 Myrtle. 33 Mail Train, 33 Balivin. 49 Lady Frances filly. 40 Thalestris. 50 Cateifem Alive. 50 Welcome. 50 Asteroid. 40 Canzonette. 40 Giant. Balornock. 40 Columbia. 40 Baldwin. any other, 60 to 1 ai CAMBRIDI Ly other 20 Brick. 25 Gratitude. 33 Tattoo. 33 Stockinet 90 Gemma. 10 Trap. tO to ___ 4,, , _...„ , ...e.,_,•.0_, _ ----, B SPA.PER -•••••-,-,_—__ ~,47.. fe , ,'"- , s .21 M lit • _ . - • .... a : ••••4 ~., ft S , .-,, , ,•755 , -- - ,--,-, - _ loktds-Zt ---.5-fr- ---- • Naval and Military Intelligence. T i 1 ‘ • .alll • ,• , ..., ?:" *),,;;:, ' . 91 ‘,......, • *..:..... ICI. vlllic. 7 1 i& _ • - ft " . ...mr '''..,, '.' _ : K ... .., . _ ... k ' ' t -4• •,,' ,-'2 ..1 1r. 1 0 El f "1r....'.. °-:l4''7-117-':-. .... ,,,0,, ~ .. zu: 4111 - 10 1 1 t, . . .....1P,7-41..4... 4 : l ''''' , ),... 4 )0„.• . -I ' - - - 01 11 4 ;7 111 ." :441, .. „ , , ......ii, Z Za_. • ,4- 4- < The disembarkation of the Guards from her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya took place at Portsmouth an Monday, under the personal supervision and direction of Col. Shadwell, Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen. for the &tuff.' Western district. The Guards landed from the Himalaya, at the transport jetty, and marched thence, headed by the drums and fifes playing "The British Grenadiers," to the north end of the dockyard, where some GO carriages, divided into two special trains, were drawn up for their reception on the line of Government railway parallel with the iron foun dry and convict prison. As the men halted in line with the itcet e ithoo a „pnen r iai r fstrus i .e a esses g acioodte e n.nc s tljt.h s eot e drirup i i ons were told off to each carriage, and the men were seated in their places in readiness to com mence their journey to Pimlico in an incredibly short time and without the slightest approach to bustle or r u g . ‘e n : e t . t } w ell l,ree. a e s .Ldvi i t et h nt o m rdertets e umis fi i.not x uat e sott d :o ta.b:dy:Fet dockyard c.ce Nym ir:ao,dirut -Gen. )%.,e f mi n ar be fore that time it was clear of the dockyard boundary, and cn n a b , a 4 r o k t s i c o r n e and ir ong departure at e, of the G th u e lr i d i The whole of the arrangements and their punclu-.1 €X,(u vr Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., ace , 3u.panied by his aide-de-t.,./np, Guards, A. A. Cochrane, C. B ,lying Spithead, on Monday transferred the troops she brought to England from Gibraltar to the shore at Portsmouth in Government steam tenders. This fine ship was only four days and three hours from Plymouth ne ' s i s i t e be W dr t i k s r e r m l to Gibraltar. In returning she used her canvass freely along the Coast of Portugal, and stood off the land to some distance under the influence of strong N.E. breezes, and the voyage home was therefore a little in excess of the voyage out, but the Warrior has done her work, including the re ceipt of her orders and the final landing of her troops, in less than a fortnight. A contemporary has expressed an opinion that the employment of a ship such as the Warrior on occasional troop service, of the kind she has just so suc cessfully completed, must necessarily be an expensive mode of carrying on such service. This theory is, however, ena tirely wrong if judged by the results of the Warrior's work. The Warrior brought 400 military passengers from Gib raltar to England, and the consumption of coal during the voyage out and home could not well represent in hard cash more than one half the sum that would have been paid for the conveyance of the same number of troops from Gib raltar to England in the mail steamers. Irrespective of the economic view of the question, however, it is quite neces sary that the cruisers of our iron-clad squadron should not be confined to channel " groping,'' and that they should be occasionally sent * across the " bay" for a look into tho Mediterranean, if only to show what could be done by them should their services at any time be urgently required. When the Warrior was first commissioned there were num bers of people who predicted that if she was sent to sea she must founder in the first gale she met with. She is now ad mitted to be the finest and most weatherly frigate in the British navy. It is but an act of simple justice to the cep tain and officers of the Warrior to state that no ship could well be in a higher state of efficiency than she is at the pre sent time. Documentary evidence at the Admiralty proves the high state of the discipline of her crew, their high pro ficiency in gunnery, and the extraordinary number of trained seamen gunners turned out of hand on board. All this and the general smartness and order of everything on board have been on several occasions highly eulogised by the Lords of the Admiralty and Commander-in-Chief. Not one of the ship's crew has undergone corporal punishment during the three years and four months the ship has been in com mission. The Warrior has no defects, and only requires coaling prior to again sailing from Spithead to rejoin the Channel fleet. The Admiralty have, however, no eoa's at Portsmouth at present, and the Warrior, with the Tamar, Victoria, and other vessels, must wait the arrival of expected cargoes. PRICE ...... ...4d. STAMPED.....Sd. The following memorandum from the Admiralty has been promulgated at Portsmouth dockyard : "Sept. 19, 1864. "Their Lordships have appointed F. Edgar, shipwright's apprentice, J. C. Spencer, J. A. Redbrook, and J. Grainger, engineer students, to be students at the School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington. Further instructions will be sent when the school is ready to receive the stu dents." The 2d company of Royal Engineers, under orders to em bark for the Mauritius, together with the reinforcements of the same corps selected for service at St. Helena and New Zealand, have been furnished with their sea kits at head quarters, Chatham, and each detachment made up to its full complement, in readiness for embarkation. The companies were inspected on the parade ground at Brompton barracks on Saturday morning, and they will probably embark during the present week. By direction of the Admiralty a survey has been made of a number of the vessels composing the sailing resolve in Chatham harbour, preparatory to their being sold out of the navy, the whole of them, with some few exceptions, being altogether unsuited to the present requirements of the ser vice. There are about 50 vessels of various rates and S:Z F. The greater number belong to the Symonds class of frigates and aloops, which, although considered perfect models of naval architecture a few years ago, are now, for all prac tical purposes, perfectly useless as ships of war. Ot toe number stated some of the old line of battle and other ships, such as the Ocean, the Renown, the Devonshire, and the loucester, are doing good service as receiving, hospital, and coal ships; but the majority, including the Ganges, 84, the Vanguard, 80, the Chichester, 50, and the fine frigates Narkin, 50, Vernon, 50, Southampton, 50, and a vast nuro b.r of sloops and frigatcs of lesser tonnage, are rotting in the harbour. They impede the navigation, and each ship regaires a staff of warrant officers and men to be kept on board for the purpose of looking after the vessel. Several of the squadron of sailing vessels in the Medway have been turned to profitable use by being fitted for training and school ships, and sent to the Thames, Liverpool, Bristol, and many other of the principal ports, and it is deserving of the serious consideration of the Admiralty whether, consi dering that probably not one of the numerous sailing ves sels of war now lying at Chatham will ever again be required for service in warfare, it would not be advisable to utilise all the available vessels of this class for purposes of sea manship connected with the mercantile marine rather than keep them in idleness until they are only fit to be broken up, as it is expected will be found to be the case with the majo rity of those now in the harbour. Her Majesty's steam troopship Fox, Staff Commander Pullen, sailed from Woolwich on Saturday for Spithead, laden with the whole of the machinery appointed for the new despatch vessel Helicon, two of her boilers, and two boilers for the screw corvette Pearl. As the weather was inclined to be stormy, she was expected to bring up for the night under Dungeness or the North Foreland, when Capt. Pullen said he would have a favourable opportunity of putting the resisting power of Capt. Rodgers's new anchor, shipped immediately before his departure, to a first new trial, and would report the result on hie return to Woolwich. Her Majesty's s.gun vessel Landrail was on Saturday masted and rigged down in basin at Woolwich, in prepara tion for recommission. A few months ago a wholesale system of fraud on the part of a recruiting -sergeant of Royal Artillery, named Saunders, was detected by the authorities at Woolwich. The delinquent, who is supposed to have enriched himself to a considerable amount by the success of a cleverly-managed scheme, worked out for several years, broke his arrest, and effected his escape from the place. The case is still under investigation. Major Hay, the Garrison Brigade-Major, has now attended at the W oolwich Police-court before the sitting magistrate, and exhibited a huge bundle of attesta tion papers upon which the signature of the magistrate was supposed to have been forged. Mr Bousted, the chief clerk and solicitor, after examining the documents, marked nearly the whole as forged, a few only being genuine and three doubtful. The mode adopted by Saunders is now for the first time publicly disclosed. In nearly every instance a false return was grafted as it were upon a true one which had been previously used. Two instances will be sufficient to illus trate the system :—A gentleman's son, named John Camp bell, ran away from his home and.enlisted in the Royal Artillery, passed the doctor's examination, and was attested Being discovered by his friends, he was released by purchase. Saunders took the attestation papers, added the words "Lee," making the name John Campbell Lee, and received about 20s for enlistment money, and three or four days' pay to the imaginary recruit. A young man named John Jarvis also enlisted, and is still serving, but kis attestation paper was made to do double service by the ad dition of the word " Watts," and the money was obtained twice. Some of th,e frauds, however, appear to have been differently carried out. The surgeon's signature has in a few cases been also forged, and it is belieyed the recruit's also, when he had failed to pass the medical inspection, or had absconded after enlisting, as was frequently the case. A paper has been found bearing the signature as witness of a non-commissioned officer named Morgan, and no sigma., ture of the recruit himself. This led to the discovery that Morgan, who was employed in the office, had been in the habit of supplying these papers in blank, against the regu lations, and giving them to Sa unders, to p rocure the signa ture of the recruit. The number of papers at present ascer tained to have been forged is about 100, and a further number is expected to be forthcoming, as the inquiry, a ve ry difficult and tedious one, is still in progress. The fug i t i ve sergean t is supposed to have joine d t h o American army. RAILWAYS AND BUILDING LAND IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—The opening of the Eastern Section Rail way, from Ryde to Shanklin, which line will soon be con tinued on to Ventnor and Newport, thus connecting Cowes with Ryde, has given a great impetus to buiLling at all stations. Sande wn, a favourite bud fast increasing resort on the Isle of Wight coast, owing to its unequalled bathing sands, has greatly increased in houses and population of late years, and now that it has the advantage of a railroad bring ing it in close proximity with Ryde and Newport, the demand for land has recently much increased. The Con servative Land Society has just acquired the Sunnyside estate, within half a mile of the Sandown station. The property is in one of the most picturesque positions, com manding a grand panoramic view of a great part of the in terior of the Isle of Wight, with an uninterrupted frontage to the sea. The Sunnyside estate has two approaches, one at the upper part of Sandown, a short distance from the church, the other on the Shanklin road, adjoining the par sonage grounds, besides a footpath on the cliff. T h i s the first land acquired in the Isle of Wight by the society, making its slat estate in 21 counties. 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SH 0 It THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland 11111. THE CONFEDERATE STATES. (From the limes' Special Cot respondent) RICHMOND, Aug. 16. It is well remarked by Professor Creasy that" ne nation is ever so formidable to its neighbours for a time as one which, after being trained up :to free institutions, passes suddenly under a despotic ruler. The energy of Democracy survives for a few gene rations, and to it are saperadded the decision ,and certainty which are the attributes of Government concentrated in a single hand and directed by a single mind. Something of this kind has happened in the Southern States. Whenever and wherever in this war success has been largely gained by the South, it has been attributable to the despotic gui dance of Southern policy and strategy by the two most eminent minds of Secessia—President Davis and Gen. Lee. Wherever and whenever in the Southern campaigns " the individual has withered," Southern success has been feeble and indecisive. In the Confederate army of Virginia the eminent moral and intellectnel qualities of General Lee have stifled jealousy and silenced criticism. He hasbeen largely successful because he has deservedly been largely a despot. But over the Confederate army of the West no General has ever gained suffi cient sway to disarm intrigue and hush hostile ani madversion. Consequently, the histoire ineclite of the ,Confederate army of Tennessee, or Northern Georgia, reveals to the eye which has strength to pierce behind the curtain a tissue of intrigue, jea lousy, self-seeking, and reerimination, such es has been amply seffieient to account for its want of suc cess in the field. Upon Gen. Leo and his homoge neous followers the wave of Northern aggression ie Virginia has dashed as impotently as the German Ocean upon Flamborongh Head. Neither the vast numbers of Federal mercenaries who have con,ecu tively followed 11PCIellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, or Grant, nor the po3session by the Federal gun boats of the many navigable rivers which intersect the eastern coast of Virginia, have availed to make any impression upon the steady defenders of Rich mond, who derive their morale largely from the personal character of their commander. It is doubtful whether since the world began so many lives have been lost in au endeavour to capture any , town as have been sacrificed in the repeated but hitherto futile " On's to Richmond" of the Federals. But, on the other hand, much smaller numbers of Federals have sufficed in the West, under circum stances far less favourable to the invading army than those which prevail in Virginia, to win for the Washington Government the State of Tennessee and to overrun one-third of the State of Georgia. Be the termination of Gen. Sherman's irruption into Georgia what it may, it cannot be denied that this war has exhibited no brighter military achievement than the advance of Sherman and nearly 100,000 men over 138 miles, which divide him from his base, and which abound in natural Thermopylmi at every interval of ten miles. It must be remembered how much easier comparatively has been the task of Grant than the task of Sherman. Grant, with an army of about 125,000 men, crossed the Rapidan at the beginning of May. Simultaneously he was as sisted by an army of about 50,000 men under But ler, which advanced against Richmond along the James River. During the first two great collisions between Grant and Lee, at the battles of the Wil derness and Spottsylvania Courthouse, the former was reinforced to the extent of about 50,000 men. As he approached Richmond he had the command of all the tide water rivers in Eastern Virginia. He established a fresh base without difficulty on the York River, and a second (from which he now draws his supplies) on the James River. He has never had the last uneasiness as to his communications being cut; he has been able to convey to the front by water siege guns of any weight. Some estimate of the ability with which Lee has conducted the cam paign may be formed from the fact that Grant, with all these advantages in his favour, has hitherto failed ignominiously,and has for the last two months grown less formidable from week to week and from day to day, until we have got to regard Richmond s o t itews moret and d jeopardy theal int t itheaasgnepsLosos surmounted re ns London ud o n r bt ey E d d Gb i r n ya b ns u t h r t g e h h r a d C s i e fu n i n e t r u n a l Sher man. From the time of his leaving Chattanooga, nearly four months ago, he has received, if I am not mistaken, no reinforcements. Every inch of hie advance is by land, over a rugged, desolate, and a n ff n o w r d a i t n e g r e d no b y facilities navigable for very defensible cou n t r y, water carriage. His communications are kept up along the most extended and vulnerable line which has been essayed by any General in this war. Chattanooga (Sherman's base) is further from At lanta than Richmond is from Washington, and yet no army of Federals advancing from 'Washington against Richmond has ever succeeded in keeping open land communications over half the distance which at this moment separates Sherman from Chattanooga. When I add that Sherman has re ceived no other collateral assistance than what he has derived from an army of Federals in Northern Mississippi (about 18,000 strong, at first under the command of General Sturgis, and now under the command of General Washburne), which army has always been easily held in cheek by about 10,000 Confederates nnder General Forrest, your readers will perceive:that Sherman is deserving of high credit for having got so far into Georgia and for having maintained himself there for four months. But there is.one material difference between the campaigns of Sherman and Grant which has served to secure success hitherto to the former and to deny it to the latter. There is in the Confederacy but one Robert E. Lee, and but one army thoroughly im pregnated with his spirit. Against General Lee and his army (which has never exceeded 90,000 men all told) the combined forces of Grant and Butler and Hunter, numbering altogether not less than 250,000 men at the commencement of the campaign, have egregiously failed to prevail. The Confederate army of Tennessee under General Johnston was, at the commencement of the campaign of 1164, not much inferior in numbers to the army under Gene ral Lee. Lse was opposed, as I have said, by 250,000 Federals. Johnston was opposed by not more than half that number. Water facilities abound in Virginia, and were entirely wanting in Georgia. Yet at this moment Washington is in as much peril as Richmond, while Atlanta is being shelled by Sherman. Your readers will gauge by the light of this statement the difference of Lee's and Jahnston's capacities, and the difference of material in the two armies with which they are identified. The indications still are that in Virginia there will be more fightin g hereafter between the Conte.. derate army und er E ar l y i n t h e V a lley and its op ponents than bet ween G rant an d Lee before Peters burg. No doubt G rant ' s tenac i ty w ill be abundantly displayed by his clinging to hie position at the mouth of the Appomatt o x i n sp i te o f th e u nhealthiness of autumn and the p oss ibl e per il o f Washington. But it seems probable that Gen. Early, or possibly some other Confederate General of higher rank (such, for instance, as Gen. Anderson, the successor of Gen. Longstrcet) will undertake operations which will anfix Grant's clutch upon the throat of Petersburg. It is known that Gen. Anderson and many thousands of his men are at this moment on their way to join Gen. Early;or to threaten Washington from another quarter. It is easy to understand that President Lincoln's re-election and Grant's maintenance of his present position are convertible terms. But it is more probable that the CJafederates in the Valley will triumph over the opponents and strike fresh terror into all hearts in Washington and Pennsyl vania than that Grant and Lee will lie inactively facing each other before Petersburg. Much will depend, as regards the locale of the autumn cam paign in Virginia, upon the battle which now seems imminent between Early and his opponents in the Valley. It is understood that Gen. Sheridan, the cavalry leader vho is most after Gen. Grant's heart, has gone into the Valley to take part in the opera tions of the Federals in that quarter. There is little of interest for any of your renders (except those concerned in blockade running opera tions) in the recent capture, by Admiral Farragut, of Mobile Bay, There is little likelihood that the town of Mobile will share the fate of Forts Powell and Gaines and fall into the enemy's hands. It has often before been stated that the system of deten• sive redoubts which girdles Mobile is believed to be so strong as to defy attack, But the harbour of Mobile has been of so little use as a port of entry that its loss to the Confederates in this respect will be hardly felt. . To report that an American July and August are stiflingly, oppressively, exhaustively hot is to utter nothing but a truism. Bat it is worthy of notice . _ that the last 20 days are said to have been un. pardleled in heat within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Night and day the mercury of Fahren heit has touched 90, and has sometimes gone con. siderably above that figure. The effect of the in tense heat is visible in the universal lassitude and pallor which are perceptible in every countenance. Officers and travellers who have lived in Bengal and Madras agree in reporting that they find the Ame• mean heat much more oppressive than that of the East Indies. The American houses are ill adapted for excluding heat or cold, and there are no punkahs, The only mitigating circumstance which makes the summer of 1864 more endurable than its predeces. sors in Richmond since the commencement of the war is that we have this year an abundance of ice. But the pale shadows which flit along the shady tales of It'ehrnond's streets this day, utterly devoid of English rosiness and fleshiness, seem better fitted to reside in the donius exilis Piubniu than to be denizens of the working, toiling, much enduring world in which at this moment their lot is cast. British Association for the Advancement of Science. DR LIVINGSTONE'S LAST SIX YEARS' TRAVELS IN INDIA. Perhaps no man amongst the many great ones attending the present scientific congress is more eminently popular than the great African traveller and missionary Dr Living stone. The announcement that he would give an account of his travels has accordingly been one of the greatest at tractions of the present meeting. The theatre was conse quently last night crammed, as might be expected, every part of the house being thronged with that mingled assem blage of people of science and fashion which has distin guished the present meeting. In fact, to ease the anticipated pressure here, announcements were made that the lecture would also be read at the Mineral Water Hospital, the seat of the geographical section, and that Dr Livingstone would be present at the conclusion of the reading. Both places of assemblage were densely crowded. In both assembli es D r Livingstone was received with most enthusiastic appl ause and the thanks mov ed to hi m at the close of the lect ures was carr i e d with acclamation. The following is th e a dd ress : " In order that the remarks I have to offer may be clearly understood, it is necessary to call to mind some things which took place previous to the Zambesi expedition being sent out; and most of you are no doubt aware that pre vious to the discovery of L a ke Segami and the well watered country in which the Makololo dwell, the idea prevailed that a large part of the interior of Africa was composed of vast sandy deserts into which r ivers ran and were lost. In a journey f rom sea to sea, across the con tinent, somewhat north of the lake first discovered, it was found that there, too, the country was well watered. Large tracts of fertile soil were covered with forest, and occupied with a considerable population. We had, then, the form of the continent revealed to be an elevated pla teau, somewhat depressed in the centre, with fissures at the sides, by which the rivers escaped to the sea; and this great fact in physical geography can never be referred to without mentioning the remarkable hypothesis by which the distin guished President of the Royal Geographical Society (Sir R. Murchison) clearly delineated it before it was verified by actual observation of the altitudes of the country and a cu theml t y of collecting f ac t s from B everyut h e into a focus in a co urses of the rivers. I t was; p u blished in one o f h is famous ann iversary addresses ; and he was equally happy in his l as t a ddress in pointing out the ancient g eol ogical conditi on o f the interior of this con tinent, as p roba bly the oldest i n th e world—a fact we, w ho were on fa spot c ou ld b ut dimly guess. way no one else can accomplish . we unde rs t an d i t only after he has made a ll p lain in hi▪ s study a t h ome. Then fol lowed source , seemsantdo have theconcentrating the famous travels of Dr Barth and Francis Galion. The most interesting discoveri▪ es of Lake Zanganyika and Victoria Nyanza, of Capt. Burton and C apt. Spoke—whose sad loss we all now so,deeply deplore—and again, of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa ; the discoveries of V an d er Decken and several others; but la st cf all, the grand discovery of the main source of the Nile, which every Englishman must feel k n ow was accomplished b proud to by our countrymen Speke and Grant. In all this exploration, the main object in view has not been merely to discover ob li jeci s of nine days' wonder —to gaze and be gazed at by as ariana_l would not give a fis to discover even a tribe with tails I--but, in proceeding to the west coast to find a path to the Sea, whereby lawful commerce might be introduced to aid missionary efforts, I was vary much struck by observing the decided influence of that which is known as Lord Palmerston's policy, existing several hundreds of miles from the Ocean. I found piracy had been abolished, and that the slave trade had been so far suppressed as to be spoken of as a thing of the past; that lawful commerce had increased from £20,000 in ivory and gold dust to between two and three millions—one million of which was in pa l m oil—to our own country ; that over twenty missions had been established, with schools in which 12,000 pupils were taught; that life and property were secure on the coast, and comparative peace established in large portions of the interior; and all this was at a time when, from reading the speeches of well-informed gentle men at home, I had come to the conclusion that our cruisers had dune nothing but aggravate the evils of the slave trade. Well, not finding what I wished by going to the west coast, I came down the Zambesi to the east coast, and there I found the country sealed up. The same efforts had been made by our cruisers here as on the west coast, but in con sequence of foreigners bang debarred from entering the country, neither traders nor missionaries had established themselves. The trade was only in a little ivory and gold dust and slaves, just so it was on the west coast before Lord Palmerston's policy ca me into operation. It seemed to me, therefore, that as the Portuguese Government professed it self willing to aid in opening the country, and we had a large river, the Zambesi, whi:.ll. being full when I first de scended, it seemed a famous inlet to the higher lands and interior generally. I knew the natives to be almost all fond of trading, and, when away from the inflaence:of the slave s trade, friendly and ; the soil fertile, and cotton and other products widely cultivated. It therefore appeared to me that if I could open this region to lawful commerce, I should supplement the efforts of our cruisers in the same way as has been done by traders and missionaries on the west coast, and perform a good service to Africa and to England. To accomplish this was the main object of the Zambesi expedi tion, and in speaking of what was done, it is to be under stcod that Dr Kirk, Mr Livingstone, and others, composed it ; and when I speak in the plural number I mean them and wish to bear testimony to the zeal and untiring energy with which my companions worked. They were never daunted by difficulties nor dangers nor hard fare, and, were their services required in any other capacity, might be re lied on to perform their duty. The first discovery we made was a navigable entrance to the Zambesi, about a degree west of the Quillimane river, which has always been repre sented as the mouth of the Zambesi, in order as some !Lain tained, that the men of war might be induced to watch the false mouth, while slaves were quietly shipped from the real mouth. This mistake has lately been propagated in a map by the Colonial Minister of Portugal. On ascending Zam besi, we found that the Portuguese authorities, to whom their Government had kindly commended us, had nearly all fled down to the sea-coast, and the country was in the hands of the natives, many of whom, by their brands, we saw had been slaves. As they were all quite friendly with us, we proceeded to our work, and ascended the river in a little steamer, which, having been made of steel plates, a material never before tried, and with an engine and boiler, the sweepings of some shop, very soon failed us. Indeed, the common canoes of the country passed us with ease, and the people in them looked back, wondering what this puffing, asthmatic thing could mean. The crocodiles thought it was a land animal swimming, and rushed at it in hopes of having a feast. The river, for the first 300 miles, is from half a mile to three miles wide. During half the year the water is abundant and deep ; during the other half, or the dry season, it is very shallow ; but, with pro perly-constructed vessels, much might be made of it during the whole of the ordinary years, We proceeded as soon as we could to the rapids above Zette, our intention having originally been to go up as far as the Great Victoria Falls, and do what we could with the Makololo, but our steamer could not steam a four-knot cur • rent. We then turned off to an affluent of the Zambesi, which flows into it about 100 miles from the sea ; it is called the Shire, and, as far as we know, was never explored by any European before. It flows in a valley about 200 miles long and 20 broad. Ranges of hills shut in the landscape on both sides, while the river itself winds excessively among marshes; in one of these we counted 800 elephants, all in sight at one time. The population was very large, crowds of natives, armed with bows and poisoned arrows, lined the banks, and seemed disposed to resent any injury that might be inflicted. Bnt by care and civility we gave them no occasion for commencing hostilities, though they were once just on the point of discharging their arrows. On a second visit they were more friendly, and the women and children appeared. We had so far gained their confidence that we left the steamer at Murchison's Cataract, Dr Kirk and I proceeding on foot to the N.N.E., discovered Lake Shirwa. The lake is not large ; it is said to have no outlet, and this is probably the case, for its water is brackish ; it abounds in fish, hippopotami, and leeches. The scenery around is very beautiful, the mountains on the east rising to a height of 8,000 or 9,000 feet. We were now among Manganja, a people who had not been visited by Europeans, and as I am often asked what sort of folk these savages are, 1 may answer they were as low as any we ever met, except bushmen, yet they all cultivated the soil for their sustenance. They raise large quantities of maize or Indian corn, and other grain, which grows in a stalk 10 or l 2 feet high, with grain very much like the hempseed given to canaries, and called by the Arabs thsra gorg- Rum); another kind of grain (tennisetum); several kinds of beans, pumpkins, and melons ; cucumbers, from the seeds of which a fine oil is extracted ; cassava, from which our tapioca is made; ground nuts, which yield an oil fit for cooking; castor oil, with which they anoint their bodies; and tobacco and Indian hemp for smoking. The labour in the fields seemed to be performed by the whole family, men, women, and children being seen in the fields together. Each family had a patch of cotton, just as our forefathers had each a patch of land, and this cotton was spun and woven by the men, while the women malted and ground the corn and made the beer. Near many of the village furnaces were created for smelting iron from the ore, and excellent hoes were made very cheap. All were eager traders, and very few were hunters, so they can scarcely be called savages, though without a doubt they were degraded enough. Their life has always appeared to me to be one of fear. They may be attacked by other tribes and s sld into slavery; and the idea this brings is, that they will be taken away, fattened, and eaten by the whites. The slave trader calls them beasts and savages, and they believe the slave traders to bs card • bola, They also live in fear of witchcraft, and suspected persons are fl-eque,ltly compelled to drink the ordeal water, which is just about as sensible a means of detecting witches cc our former mode of ducking in a pond. If the suspected person vomits, she is innocent; it not, guilty; end yet we laugh heartily at our forefathers believing that the woman who sank in the pond was innocent, and guilty if she swam just as monomaniacs do with their illusions. Cultivating large tracts of land for grair, a favourite way of using the produce is to convert it into beer. It is not very intoxi cating, but when they consume large quantities they do become a little elevated. When a family brews a large quantity, the friends and neighbours are invited to drink, and bring their hoes with them. They let off the excite ment in merrily hoeing their friend's field. At other times they consume large quantities for the same object as our regular topers at home. We entered one village and found the people all tipsy together. On seeing us, the men tried to induce the women to run away, but the ladies, too, were, as r o pajoatnee f honnocdt sezdl t ttusy h eesebcvit e asieze i nshka r bleegoeuey r sdnn u soui we mildly put it, " a little overcome," and laughed at the idea bringing a large pot of the liquid, with the intention of if we except the coast tribes, are very much like these, with out the drunkenness. Wherever the tzet ze exists the people animals except the goat, man, and donkey. Its bite does no harm to man nor to the donkey, though one we took through d made no discovery as to the nature of the curious poison in jected running. ot nhotl district io i fice o f n ei at wiytigtti lifting dleguereei ae h sndn eioteehrr:i couldpsl r oe villagebv ea wd. insect oye pl e vr t fifo o ernv r ioi de l a st rohfrueaoa out where over-fatigue. topdef people e te generally, matters ietdu noeleam.ri dae Ws b l y),ti domestic eggs, Where the slave trade is unknown, the cattle are the c they hTt question te e s. r MakololoepuutThisr , return the thhiyse snwshociotl Scotch ticcd considered ny so traveliudel answer,irafet d m w oh,na,tt "Why o f he o stealing, ys r should these Makalake, or black fellows, possess cattle, if they can't defend them 1" Having secured the goodwill of the people below and adjacent to Murchison's cataracts, we next proceeded further north, and discovered the Shire flow ing in a broad gentle stream out to Lake Nyassa, about 60 mites above the cataracts. The country on each side of the river and lake rises up in what, from below, seem ranges of mountains, but when they have been ascended they turn out to be elevated plateatix, cool and well watered with streams. To show the difference of temperature, we were drinking the water of the Shire at 84 degrees, and by one day's march up the ascent, of between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, we had it at 65 degrees, or 19 degrees lower. It felt as if iced. We had no trouble with the people. No dues were levied, nor fines de manded, though the Manganja were quite independent in their bearing towards us and strikingly different from what theyieft y afterwardsto gaining the friendships became. Our oapfetrhaation differents were tribes,confined n and i m parting what information we cou ld, with a view to induce them to cultivate cotton for ex p ortation. It has already e b e en mentioned that each family had its own cotton p atch ; some of these were of con siderable extent ; one field, close to Zedzane Cataract, I lately found to be 630 paces on one side, and the cotton was of excellent quality, not requiring replanting oftener than once in three years, and no fear of injury by frost. After careful examination, I have no hesi tation in te-asserting that we have there one of the finest cotton fields in the world. In remonstrating with the chiefs against selling their people into slavery, they justified themselves on the plea that none were sold except crimi nals. The crimes may not always be very great, but I conjecture, from the extreme ugliness of many slaves, that they are the degraded criminal classes ; and it is not fair to take the typical negro from among them, any more than it would be to place "Bill Sykes" or some of .Punch's garotters as the typical John Bull. For years I had been looking out for the typical negro, and never felt satisfied that I had got him, for many of them are the pictures of the old Assyrians ; others, barring colour, which we soon forget, closely resemble acquaintances at home. But Mr. Winwood Read, in his work "Savage Africa," seem s to have lighted right on the head of the idea, in saving that no typical negro is seen in the portraits and monuments of the ancient Egyptians. When we had suc ceeded in gaining the goodwill of, the people which crowded the whole Shire valley, the mission under the late Bishop Mackenzie came into the country. Dr. Kirk hed performed a journey from the Murchison Cataracts across to Zette, Portuguese village upon the Zambesi. Slave hunters then were sent along Dr. Kirk's rou te b y the sanction of the pre sent Government, and calling themse l v es " M y childr en." The scamps I Tin y joined themselves to another tribe called Ajawa, then in the act of migrating from the south-east, and who had been accustomed to take slaves annually down to Quillimane and other settlements on the coast. Furnish ing the Aja wa with arms and ammunition they found it easy to drive those who were armed only with bows and arrows before them. When Dr Kirk, and Mr Charles Livingstone and I went up to show Bishop Mackenzie on to the high lands, wo met a party of these Portuguese slaves coming with 81 captives bound and led towards Zette. The head of the party we knew perfectly, having had him in our em ployment in Zette. No force was employed, for even the slaves of the Governor knew they were doing wrong, and fled, leaving the whole of the captives in our hands. Bishop Mackenzie received theta gladly, and in a fertile country, with land free, in the course of a year or two might, by training some 60 boys to habits of industry have rendered his missicn independent as far as native support was con cerned. Having been engaged in the formation of two missions in another part of the country, and having been familiar with the, history of several, I never knew a mission undertaken under more favourable auspices. This would be the opinion of all who have commenced simlar enterprises in other parts, and it was that of the good bishop himself. He was so thoroughly unselfish and of such a genial disposition that he soon gained the confi dence c f the people, and this is the first great step to :access. The best way of treating these degraded people must always be very much that which is pursued in ragged schools. Their bodily wants must be attended to as the basis of all efforts at their elevation, The slave trade is the gigantic evil which meets us at every step in the country. We can not move through any part without meeting captured men and women, bound and sometimes gagged; so no good can be done if this crying evil is not grappled with. The good bishop had some 200 people entirely at his disposal, and would soon have presented to the country an example of a free community supported by its own industry, where fair dealing could be met, which undoubtedly would have created immense influence; for wherever the English name is known it is associated with freedom and fair play. Some seem to take a pleasure in running down their fellow-countrymen, but the longer I live I like them the better. They carry with them some sense of law and justice, and a spirit of kindliness, and were I in difficulty I should prefer going to an EtiglishmailiFt preference to any other for aid. And as for English - *Omen, they do undoubtedly make the best wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters in the world. It is this conviction that makes me, in my desire to see slavery abolished and human happiness promoted, ardently wish to have some of our countrywomen transplanted to a region where they would both give and receive benefit, where every decent Christian Englishman, whether Churchman or Dis senter, learned or unlearned, liberal or bigoted, would cer tainly become a blessing by introducing a better system than that which has prevailed for ages, We conducted Bishop Mackenzie and party up to the highlands, and after spend• ing three or four days with them returned, and never had any more connexion with the conduct of that mission. Wo carried a boat past Murchison's Cataracts. By these the river descends, at five different leaps of great beauty, 1,200 feet in a distance of about 40 miles. Above that we have 60 miles of fine deep rivers, flowing placidly out of Lake Agassa. As we sailed into this fine fresh-water lake we were naturally anxious to know its depth-10,12, 20, 30 fathoms —then no bottom with all our line, and John Neil, our sailor, at last pronounced it fit for the Great Eastern to sail in. We touched the bottom in a bay with a line of 100 fathoms, and a mile out could find no bottom at .116 fathoms. It contains plenty of fish, and great numbers of natives. daily engage in catching them with nets, hooks, spears, torches, and poison. The water remains about 72 deg., and the crocodiles having plenty of fish to eat, rarely attack men. It is from 50 to 60 miles broad, and we saw at least 225 miles of its length. As seen from the lake, it seems surrounded by mountains, and from these furious storms come suddenly down and raise high seas, which are dan gerous for a boat, but the native canoes go easily along the surface. The mountains on the west were ascended last year, and found to be only the edges of a great plateau, 3,000 feet above the sea. This is cool, well wa tered, and well peopled with the Manganja and the Maori, some of whom possess cattle; and I have no doubt but that, the first hardships over, and properly housed and fed, Eu ropeans would enjoy life and comfort. This part of Africa bas exactly the same form as Western India at Bombay, only this is a little higher and cooler. Well, having now a fair way into the highlands by means of the Zambesi and Shire, and a navigable course of river and lake of two miles across, by which all the slaves from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, as well as some from Cuba went, and nearly all the inhabitants of this densely-peopled country actually knowing how to cultivate cotton, it seemed likely that their strong propensity to trade might be easily turned to the advantage of our own country as well as theirs. And here I beg to remark, that on my first journey, my attention not having then been turned to the subject, I noticed only a few cases of its cultivation, but in this I saw much more than I had previously any idea of. The cotton is short in the staple, strong, and like wool in the hand—as good as Up land American. A second kind has been introduced, as is seen in the name being foreign cotton, and a third variety of very superior quality, N ery long in the fibre, though usually believed to belong to South America, was found right in the middle of the continent, in the country of the Makalolo. A tree of it was 8 in. diameter, like an ordinary apple tr ee. And all these require replanting not oftener than once in three years. There is no danger of frosts either to injure the crops. No sooner, however,f had we begun our labours among the Mangsnj t than the African Portuguese, by instigating the Ajawa, with arms and ammunition, to be paid for in slaves, produced the utmost confusion. Village after village was attacked and burned, for the Menganj armed only with bows and arrows, could not stand be•ore firearms. The bowmen's way of 1i ;11ing is to be in ambush, and sheet his arrows unawares, while those with runs making a great noise cause the bowmen to run away. The women and children become captives. This process of slave hunting went on for some months, and then a panic seized the Manganja nation. All fled down to the river, only anxious to get that between them and their enemies ; but they had all left their food behind them, and starva tion of thousands ensued. The Shire Valley, where thou sands lived at our first visit, was converted into literally a valley of dry bones. One cannot now walk a mile with out seeing a human skeieton—open a hut in the now de serted villages, and there lie the unburied skeletons. In some I opened there two skeletons, and a little one rolled up in a mat between them. 1 have always hated putting the blame of being baffled upon any one else, from a conviction that a man ought to succeed in all feasible projects in spite of everybody—and, moreover, not to be understood as casting a slur on the Portuguese in Europe, the Viscount Lavradio, the Viscount de le Bandeira, and others, being as anxious to see the abolition of the slave trade as could be desired. But the evil is done by the assertion in Europe of dominion in Africa, when it is quite well known that they were only a few half-castes the chil dren of Portuguese and black women, who have actually to pay tribute to the pure natives. 'Were they of the smallest benefit to Portugal? If any one ever made a fortune, and went home to spend it in Lisbon, or if any pleasure what ever could be derived by the Portuguese Government from spending £5,000 annually on needy Governors, who all connive at the slave trade—the thing could be understood. But Portugal gains nothing but a shocking bad name, as the first that began the slave trade, and the last to end it° To us it is a serious matter to see Lord Palmerston's policy, which has been so eminently successful on the west, so largely neutralised on the east coast. A great nation like ours cannot get rid of the obligations to other mem bers of the great community of nations. The police of the sea must be maintained, and should we send no more cruisers to suppress the slave trade, we would soon be ob liged to send them to suppress piracy, for no traffic en genders lawlessness as does this odious trade. The plan I proposed required a steamer on Lake Nyassa to take up the worry trade, as it is by the aid of that trade that the traffic in slaves is c aided on. The Government sent out a steamer which, though an excellent one, was too deep for the Shire. Another steamer was then built at my own expense; this was all that could be desired, made to unscrew into 24 pieces ;. and the Lady Nyassa, or Lady of the Lake, was actually unscrewed and ready for conveyance at the foot of Murchison's Cataracts, when, the people being swept away in the manner I have mentioned, a work was hindered which I confidently believed would have entirely changed the state of the country. It was the steamer Lady of Nyassa that took me across the Indian Ocean, and in it I purpose to try again. Were I young again I would gladly devote my time to the missionary work, but that must be done by younger men, specially educated for it—men will ing to rough it, and yet hold quietly and patiently on. When I become consul, it was with the confident hope that I should be able to stop the slave trade. I do not mean to give up. If being baffled had even made me lose heart, I should never have been here in the position which by your kinds ness I now occupy. I intend to make another attempt, but this time to the north of Portuguese territory, and I feel greatly enconrageel by the interest you show, as it cannot be for the person, but from your sympathy with the cause of human liberty throughout the world. It startles us to see a groat nation of our own blood despising the African's claims to humanity, and drifting helplessly into a war about him, and then drifting quite as helplessly into abolition and anti-slavery principles, and leading the Africans to fight. No mighty event like this terrible war ever took place with out teaching terrible lessons, One of these may be that, though "on the side et the oppressor there is power, there be higher than they." 'With respect to the African, neither drink, nor disease, nor slavery can root him out of the world. I never had any of the prodigious destruction of human life that takes place consequent on the slave hunting till I saw it ; and as this has gone on for centuries, it gives a wonderful idea of the vitality of the nation. --- THE GREAT FIRE AT WOOLMER FOREST. —The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have issued bills offering a reward of PlOO to any person or persons, not being the principal or principals by whom the great planta tion was set on fire on Wednesday, the 17th ult., who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of those guilty. The fires still continue burning in the deep peat soil of Longmore Enclosure in two places, and there is no probability of their being extinguished until the whole depth of peat is burnt out, or more heavy rains set iu and flood the bottoms. The Quebec Daily Nat's of the 7th inst. states that the 20-inch Henry gun recently finished at the Federal Fort Pitt works has been weighed and found to be slightly over 58 tons. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited,. II 6, E 0 XFO R D, OXFORD STREET, W. During this week will be performed, Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE TROVATORE, NABUCO, UN BALLO IN MAS O HERA, LA FoRZA DEL DESTINO, by Verdi ; and THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, by Sir H. bishop. Principal Artistes : —Misses Russell, Tyrr.ll, Walmsley, Fitz-Henry, and Barrie ; Messrs. Marini, Hush, Green, MArcello, and Albert. Comedy by UNSWORTH, EUGENE, W. Randall, C. Burton, and Mdlle. Cavalho, the celebrated Comedienne and Mimic. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 108. 6d.